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Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in the Kansas Indian War by Jeff Broome 9780803222885
RRP: $24.50$18.16In his study of the civilian population that fell victim to the brutality of the 1860s Kansas Indian wars, Jeff Broome recounts the captivity of Susanna Alderdice, who was killed along with three of her children by her Cheyenne captors (known as Dog... -
Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer by Frederic F. Van de Water 9780803296077
RRP: $25.79$21.76"All his life, he rode after Glory," writers Frederic F. Van de Water of George Armstrong Custer. Ironically, he found it at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In his introduction to this edition, Paul Andrew Hutton considers the importance of... -
The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War by Michael F. Conlin
RRP: $32.24$29.37In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the Constitution aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war... -
Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 by Edward J. Blum 9780807160411
$34.21During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But after the sacrifice made by thousands of Union soldiers to arrive at this juncture, the moment soon... -
Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory by Robert E. May
RRP: $30.90$22.92How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In... -
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 by Larry McMurtry
RRP: $18.05$12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476743882Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire by William Earl Weeks
$43.83This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired... -
Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable by Chester G. Hearn 9780275982317
$62.80This book tells the story of the scientific talent and technological prowess of two nations that joined forces to connect themselves with a communications cable that would change the world. In 1855 an American visionary named Cyrus West Field, who knew... -
The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America by Janet M. Davis 9780199733156
RRP: $54.17$53.57When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss... -
The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home by Eugene D. Genovese 9781316502891
RRP: $34.82$27.93This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930-2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a... -
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands
RRP: $34.83$23.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385547284Author H. W. BrandsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons 9780199754243
RRP: $29.66$19.65The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern... -
Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis by Cynthia Nicoletti 9781108401531
RRP: $34.82$26.59This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial... -
Specimens of Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne by Mr. Robert McCracken Peck 9780922233496
RRP: $37.40$24.82Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, "Specimens of Hair" presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon hundreds of specimens of hair--animal and human, Including thirteen of the first fourteen U.S... -
Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery by Calvin Schermerhorn
RRP: $25.79$21.18Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the... -
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition by James O. Gump
RRP: $25.79$22.63In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular... -
John Finerty Reports the Sioux War by Paul L. Hedren 9780806165059
$39.55In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for the... -
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America 1830-1930 by Louis Adamic 9781904859741
$17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859741Author Louis AdamicFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 512g -
Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer 9780807118511
RRP: $29.61$20.72Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor ""was and remains an enigma."" He was a southerner who espoused many... -
Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation by Bruce Dorsey 9780197633090
RRP: $34.82$28.34A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath. In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman... -
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann 9780374528935
RRP: $46.44$30.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528935Author Warren ZimmermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Jeans of the Old West by Michael Harris
RRP: $41.27$33.46The ever-popular blue jean originated in the Old West frontier of San Francisco in the late 1800s, and here is an extensive look at the entire era of Old West denim. Gathered from collections around the world, it presents never-before-seen pictures of... -
Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272088
RRP: $25.79$21.13Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two... -
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries 9780814743317
RRP: $30.95$26.88Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association A remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in... -
From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley 9780521635264
RRP: $29.66$23.94In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and... -
The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 by Jeffrey Sklansky 9780807853986
RRP: $55.41$51.01Socializing the psyche; Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey-Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American... -
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt 9780195161045
$31.81The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics--local, state, and federal--in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the... -
Black Reconstruction in America: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 6 by Henry Louis Gates 9780195325812
$76.50W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally... -
A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights by Laura F. Edwards 9781107401341
RRP: $27.08$19.98Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the American Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by... -
My Bones are Red by Patricia A. Waak 9780865549173
RRP: $32.19$30.10In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of "tri-racial isolates." While much... -
American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy by John Lamberton Harper 9780521708746
RRP: $39.98$32.83Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign... -
Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 by Robert M. Utley 9780803295513
RRP: $30.95$26.02In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the... -
We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush by Andrea G. McDowell
RRP: $45.09$36.88A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearA surprising account of frontier law that challenges the image of the Wild West. In the absence of state authority, Gold Rush miners crafted effective government by the people-but not for all the people.Gold... -
The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper 9780063118324
RRP: $41.28$23.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063118324Author Anderson CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Robert S. Levine (The University of Maryland) 9781324004752
RRP: $27.08$22.18When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang (University of California, Santa Barbara) 9780871404473
RRP: $29.66$25.45Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but... -
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius 9780674295551
RRP: $24.45$20.73Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the... -
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 by Sven Beckert 9780521524100
RRP: $39.98$33.37This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and... -
Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by Professor Joy S Kasson 9780809032440
RRP: $25.80$17.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809032440Author Professor Joy S KassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost by Peter Manseau
RRP: $21.92$14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328557063Author Peter ManseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 277g